| > | | | | pill that makes you feel a little strange but also |
| It hangs from the ceiling above your bed while | | | | exhilarated. |
| you toss through the night hours. It waits inside | | | | 2. Learn to recognize when it will come and |
| the door of every employment office you enter. | | | | anticipate its arrival with excitement. Without it, |
| It dogs your footsteps as you pound the job | | | | you are flat, beaten, dejected. Wait for it to |
| search pavement. It lounges in an empty chair as | | | | come, welcome it, and view it as your |
| you crawl through another desultory interview. It | | | | body’s ally to focus yourself on the job |
| sits on your shoulder while you balance your | | | | search situation. Have your anxiety stay close to |
| checkbook’s alarmingly diminishing balance. | | | | you, forcing you to be aware of your |
| Its name is anxiety. It’s made up of fear, | | | | surroundings and ready to express your thoughts |
| self-doubt, guilt, dread, and self-reproach. It ties | | | | and feelings to a potential employer with |
| your stomach in knots, makes sweat ooze from | | | | enthusiasm and energy. |
| your pores, makes your head hurt, your memory | | | | 3. Talk to your anxiety as if with an old friend. |
| blur, and your concentration dissipate. You | | | | Look at it as your best personal source of |
| can’t wash it away, will it away or beat it | | | | familiarity, camaraderie and support. Let it work |
| away. The only way to contain it is to embrace it, | | | | for you, not against you and you have not only |
| to make it your ally and your friend. How? | | | | tamed the beast but have created a more |
| 1. Although anxiety can unnerve you and make | | | | enjoyable and positive environment for yourself. |
| you feel paralyzed, consider its ability to energize | | | | Your self-doubts will always linger but they are at |
| you. Watch it carefully, without emotion or | | | | a manageable level where you can calmly push |
| judgment distorting your vision, and you will see it | | | | them into the background while you concentrate |
| raise the hairs on your neck, excite your thought | | | | on making a great self-presentation. |
| processes, heighten your senses, stir your | | | | After a short amount of practice, you will find |
| imagination and make you keenly aware of being | | | | yourself almost in a panic before the anxiety |
| alive. Trace its pathway through your body, | | | | arrives because you need that charge of energy |
| coursing through your veins and touching every | | | | to get you going and move you forward. Try it |
| part of each extremity. Instead of fighting it, | | | | and see if it works for you. |
| embrace it as if it were a natural amphetamine, a | | | | |